Willard Chase's statement to E.D. Howe calls Moroni a "spirit."
Willard Chase, in E. D. Howe, Mormonism Unvailed (Painesville, OH: author, 1834), 242
In the month of June 1827, Joseph Smith, sen., related to me the following story: "That some years ago, a spirit had appeared to Joseph his son, in a vision, and informed him that in a certin place there was a record on plates of gold, and that he was the person that must obtain them . . .